TripAdvisor Reviews De Curtis Palace Catania

Travel Blogs from Catania

... views of ancient churches and the aqua blue waters of the Mediterranean. Google Maps has sure made traveling easier. We used to sometimes hire a taxi upon arriving in a new town just to find our hotel among the tangled streets with few or no street signs, and with bizarre numbering systems. (Why is number 39 next to number 418? and why is number 88 directly across the street?) Now we often don't even have to enter the hotel into Maps. If we've made a ...

... of the towns below as we raised our glasses of prosecco. The next morning before we left Rob and I went to look at the Greek amphitheatre, which is another well preserved example of the clever design and engineering of people from long ago. We had a little picnic lunch at the hotel, with the view to Mt Etna and the coast, then we walked to get the bus to Catania, to begin our journey to ...

... top, we walked along the edge next to two craters, I had lunch at this stop (arancini, coffee and canoli cake). Nice sunny day today. We spent some time waiting for the English people to get back to the bus, thought we had lost them! Next stop was an underground cave, we were issued with a hard hat and torch. Last stop was to ...

... pasta with tomatoes and eggplant and veal schnitzel which they call steak and bread! Also wine and a beer. Sunny day today, took the chairlift back down and walked back to our hotel for a rest. We found the pool and had a rest there but sun nearly gone now. Walked to the beach at Isola Bella and stayed there for a while then went back to the hotel for wine, beer and nibbles for ...

... got on the train to Villa San Giovanna which took about 4 hours arriving at 16.28. During the train journey we saw mountains one one side and the sea on the other side. We travelled through many tunnels cut into the mountains. When the train stopped at Derby there was some sort of problem, police and ambulance there, we were delayed because of this hold up and it meant we got off the train about 1/2 hour later than expected. When we ...